Unlike Florida, no one wore a costume and all the men dress as they do year-round, black suit, white shirt, black hat and grayish to whitish beard. Until the grass gets greener, the flowers bloom and ...

So is Rabbi Shalom Lebowitz. Dressed as Mordechai, he is prancing from group to group, injecting doses of enthusiasm.

"To receive but not to give is, in Jewish geography as well as Jewish psychology, simply not life," said Rabbi Jonathan Sachs ...

We have just passed the Jewish holiday of Purim, a time to commemorate the story of Queen Esther, who saved the Jewish people ...

Wherever we travel, wherever we find ourselves in this vast world, all we have to do is pay attention, look around, maybe put ...

The folk singer Tom Lehrer penned a famous ditty in which he alluded to spending Jewish holidays in places where the name of ...

Survey of 78,000 people in 36 countries on ‘religious switching’ in the world also shows that 20% of the US Muslim population ...

The report highlights Israel as the country with the highest global ranking in the quality of social connections (followed ...

Each of my children has different strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles. With Hashem’s help, they will all find their own individual paths.

Tisa, which this year was also Purim Meshulash, the grand Melave Malka benefitting Keren Chaya Mushka was held for the twenty ...

And so it goes, the cycle of exile and remembrance, uprooting and rerooting. With the Passover holiday, those free can celebrate their freedom, and those who are rooted, their rootedness. Yet at the ...

Helen Ready’s 1971 women’s liberation anthem, “I Am Woman Hear Me Roar,” comes to mind when I think of Purim. Remember Esther ...